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Barbed wire

Internet censorship: making the hidden visible

14 Oct 2016

Despite being founded on ideals of freedom and openness, censorship on the internet is rampant, with more than 60 countries engaging in some form of...

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Professor Maati Monjib has become the face of Morocco’s war on freedom of expression

Opinion: Morocco’s war on free speech is costing its universities dearly

09 Dec 2015

Shana Cohen (Department of Sociology) discusses censorship and free speech in Morocco.

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Manchester protest (27 September 2014)

Opinion: How free are we really?

30 Oct 2015

Priyamvada Gopal (Faculty of English) discusses freedom as a practice rather than a value to be worshipped.

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Censorship war

Censorship versus freedom of expression

17 Sep 2015

In a series of provocative debates at this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas (19 October – 1 November), censorship and freedom of expression will be...

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Innocent landscape or coded message? Artists under suspicion in the First World War

22 Apr 2014

During the First World War artists were widely believed to be spies and, around much of the country, painting became illegal. Research by art...

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Abigail Brundin

A fresh look at the ‘grand narratives’ of literary history

01 Aug 2009

Renaissance scholar Dr Abigail Brundin, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Italian, has been awarded an ‘I Tatti’ Fellowship from Harvard...

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